Sunday 4 June 2017

How to find out properties of gpu?


                    Different properties of gpu can be find out by calling cudaGetDeviceProperties() function.

e.g.
cudaDeviceProp p;
int device_id;
cudaGetDevice(&device_id);
cudaGetDeviceProperties(&p,device_id);

Explanation
            cudaDeviceProp is a predefined structure(i.e. structure in C language) which is defined in the cuda.h header file. It has variables, which represent the information of a gpu. For e.g. name, warpSize, major, minor etc. 
cudaGetDevice() returns the id of a current gpu in the system. Id of gpu starts from 0 to n-1 where n is the total number of gpus present in the system. The gpu id is get assigned to the variable whose address is passed to cudaGetDevice() function as an argument. cudaGetDeviceProperties(&p,device_id) returns the values of properties of a gpu having id device_id. These values are get assigned to the structure variable (in this case p). p.major and p.minor gives the major and minor values of micro architecture generation of a gpu whose properties values are saved into the structure variable p.

Note: Check CUDA program to find out major and minor of gpu in this link Cuda: Finding Compute Capability of a GPU

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